Fracking: Landowner sues New York, seeks compensation for ban
Jon Campbell, @JonCampbellGAN Published 4:13 p.m. ET Dec. 21, 2017 | Updated 5:45 p.m. ET Dec. 21, 2017
Fracking has been the subject of much debate. But before your form an opinion on the subject, first consider the proce… ...

Tens of thousands of acres would effectively be lost to Mexico. Anything south of the wall would be of no use to anyone north of the wall. It would become, at best, a no-man’s land, and by default, ceded to Mexico - along with access to the river itself.
Although the land and riverbank would te… ...

It is obvious why Industry wants to kill, or at least slow down, the nation's drive to replace fossil fuel based energy with renewables...we just can't let them do it!
'INFLECTION POINT': Renewables will be the 'cheapest form of new power generation' by 2020
Graham Rapier… ...

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Fracking: Landowner sues New York, seeks compensation for ban
Jon Campbell, @JonCampbellGAN Published 4:13 p.m. ET Dec. 21, 2017 | Updated 5:45 p.m. ET Dec. 21, 2017
Fracking has been the subject of much debate. But before your form an opinion on the subject, first consider the process. USA TODAY, 2012
ALBANY - An East Rochester lawyer waging a years-long battle over New York's hydraulic fracturing ban is taking a new approach, filing a lawsuit last week attempting to force … [Read more...]

Trump will go down in the history books as the absolute all-time worst President that has ever disgraced the Oval Office with his presence. This explains why George W. Bush holds his head up so high these days...
How the Right Lost Its Mind and Embraced Donald
Trump
By Charles Sykes On 9/21/17 at 8:00 AM
This is a painful story for me to write.
For a quarter of a century, I was a major part of the conservative movement. But like many on the right, in the wake of Donald … [Read more...]

The only mass extinction caused by an asteroid impact occurred 65 million years ago which caused the Dinosaurs to go extinct...all the rest were caused by climate change.
Ice Loss and the Polar Vortex: How a Warming Arctic
Fuels Cold Snaps
The loss of sea ice may be weakening the polar vortex, allowing cold blasts to dip south from the Arctic, across North America, Europe and Russia, a new study says.
By Bob Berwyn, InsideClimate News
Sep 28, 2017
A … [Read more...]

Tens of thousands of acres would effectively be lost to Mexico. Anything south of the wall would be of no use to anyone north of the wall. It would become, at best, a no-man’s land, and by default, ceded to Mexico - along with access to the river itself.
Although the land and riverbank would technically still belong to the United States, it would be walled off fromTexas, and access to the Rio Grande River would be lost from the Texas side.
It is difficult to build anything in a riparian … [Read more...]

or is it just plain stupidity - this says it all...
...rural, Christian, white Americans are entrenched in fundamentalist belief systems; don’t trust people outside their tribe; have been force-fed a diet of misinformation and lies for decades; are unwilling to understand their own situations; and truly believe whites are superior to all races.
Fundamentalism, racism, fear and propaganda: An insider explains why rural, Christian white America will never change
Forsetti's Justice, … [Read more...]

Mainstream Democrats (i.e., corporate Dems. & neo-cons) are destroying their chances of taking back the House and Senate in the 2018 and 2020 elections, and just may get Trump elected for a second term!
The Democratic Party’s Deadly Dead-End
July 3, 2017
Exclusive: By playing for centrist and neoconservative votes, national Democrats have left the party floundering with no coherent political message and creating a daunting challenge for democracy, says Nicolas J S Davies.
By … [Read more...]

...mean spirited & ill conceived with a measure of delusional thinking thrown in!
The Republican health bill is stuck in a valley of incoherence
Is 22 million more uninsured a moral blight? Evidence of freedom? Republicans disagree.
Updated by Ezra Klein@ezraklein Jul 7, 2017, 9:40am EDT
On Thursday, Sen. John Cornyn, the Texan who serves as Mitch McConnell’s second in command, offered a dazzling display of the GOP’s incoherence on the goals of health care policy.
He was … [Read more...]

It is obvious why Industry wants to kill, or at least slow down, the nation's drive to replace fossil fuel based energy with renewables...we just can't let them do it!
'INFLECTION POINT': Renewables will be the 'cheapest form of new power generation' by 2020
Graham Rapier
Wind turbines near Lingleville, Texas. Texas produces the most wind power of any state. AP Photo/ Donna McWilliam
Renewable energy sources, like solar and wind, are quickly … [Read more...]

Once again, the myth of "safe & responsible" fracking is exposed as a lie...
It’s Nonsense to Say Fracking Can Be Made Safe, Whatever Guidelines We Come Up With
July 7, 2017 by Richard Davies
Third Energy’s km8 well site. (Photo: Drillordrop.com, website on UK fracking)
With companies in the UK (Cuadrilla Resources, Third Energy) getting ready to frack for shale gas, the debate over whether this can be done safely has once again flared up. According to Professor … [Read more...]